Adjustable horse-collar.



E. WALRATH.

ADJUSTABLE HORSE COLLAR.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 27, 1910.

1,040,820. Patented 0ct.8,1912.

WITNESSES: INVENTOR EDWARD WALRATH, OF LA FARGEVILLE, NEW YORK.

ADJUSTABLE HORSE-COLLAR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 8, 1912.

Application filed September 27, 1910. Serial No. 584,075.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Enwann lVAmnvri-r, a citizen of the United States, residing at La .lFargovillc. in the county of Jetlerson and State of New York, have invented certain new and use'li'ul Improvements .in Adjustable Horse-Collars; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appcrtains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to certain new and useful in'iprovements in adjustable horse collars, the object being to provide a. collar which is so constructed that the same will adjust itself to the animal on which it is placed in such a manner that all danger of the shoulders of the animal becoming injured by using a collar which does not fit, is prevented.

Another object of my invention is to provide a collar which is form-ed of a pair of side pads adjustably connected together in such a manner that when the haincs are placed in position on the same, they will be drawn together and held on the animal in their proper positions.

A. still further object of my invention is to provide means for supporting the side pads with straps and buckles, whereby the same can be readily adjusted.

A still further object; of my invention is to provide a padv which is extmedingly simple and cheap in construction, and one in which the parts are so constructed that they will be held in their proper shapes.

\Vith these objects in view, the invention consists in the novel lI'eatu res ot' (:OIlStl'llCtilOtl, combination and arrangement of parts, hereinatter fully described and pointed out in the claim.

In the drawing forming a part of this specification: Figure l is a front elevation of my improved adjustable collar. Fig. 2 is a tflctail section through the coupling sleeve. Fig. 3 a section taken on line l-3 of Fig. 1.

Referring to the drawing, 1 and '2 indicate the side pads of my improved collar provided with buckles 3, in which are secured straps a carried by a neck pad 5 -for supporting the side pads in their prop positions, and said neck pad 5 is provided with guides (2 to receive the hamcs and hold the same in their proper positions.

The pads .l and 2 are provided with stillcning members 7 and 8 which are secured in position therein by rivets S), and said stilt'ening members 'i' and 8 are preferably formed ol tubes bent to the proper shape and provided with angled lower ends it) and It ol unequal length. Secured on the end 10 ot the still'cning member 7 is a coupling sleeve 12, into which the end ill of the still?- cning member 8 is adapted to extend in such a manner that it is tree to more within the sleeve l2 in order to allow the pads to move in respect: to each other whereby the same will adjust themselves to the animal on. which they are placed and during the muscular exertions oi' the animal. The pads are held in their proper positions on the animal by the hames (not shown) so that alter the pads have been placed in position and the hames are adjusted they will be drawn together so as to snugly lit the shoulders ot. the animal.

What I claim is:

In combination with a horse collar adapted to be used with hames, side pads, a still cning member comprising a piece of equidiametrical tubing secured to each side pad and adapted to be engaged by the hamcs, the lower ends oi? the stitl'ening members being bent at approximately right angles to their upper portions so that the said lower ends are rectilinear and in alinement with each other, a cylimlrical sleeve surroumling and secured to one of said rectilinear ends, the other of said rectilinear ends being slidably seated in the sleeve and adapted to become properly adjusted therein by means of the inward pressure oi. the hames and the outward pressure of the horses neck.

in testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

EDVARI) \VJYLRA'III.

\Vitnesses:

Duvaun LAwnnNon, Haney VAN Cononunr.

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Washington, D. C. 

